Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Moving house

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Time came to integrate my rants into one single place, so for those interested, please go to my site for more up to date (barely) posts.
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Parity or moneybags?

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Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue made the word “parity” into a mantra, while fans of European football are normally realistic enough t...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Time, the great equaliser

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The baseball season is 162 games and has been since 1961 in the AL and 1962 in the NL . It stretches from early April to late September and ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Perfection

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On to Outside the Lines on ESPN, where Amy K. Nelson follows up on Jim Joyce, who umpired first base in a Tigers game in June. "I thin...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Arms race

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Batting wins games, pitching wins championships It's an old chestnut, but it's never been more true than now. And right now the road...
Monday, September 20, 2010

The Gap

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D ivorce is never an easy "out", regardless of the alternatives. Whether it's in our personal life or a divorce of less intima...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Football, Umpires and other whines

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The NFL is back, the MLB is in the middle of the pennant race (although my Red Sox have a 1.7 % shot at making the playoffs after tonight...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Witnessing history...pt 2

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Y et again Lady Luck gave me her blessings and I managed to stumble upon history in sports terms for the second time. No, not another no-no,...

Time

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A gain time has been my enemy. A summer filled with World Cup, injuries, baseball and other events have yet again prevented me from posting ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Bikkuri pt. 2

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I admit, I've always had a soft spot for Daisuke Matsuzaka . I loved the acquisition in 2007 , and while he could be frustrating to watc...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Last chance saloon

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David Ortiz's struggles were well documented in 2009, both on this blog , and in mainstream press. The normally restrained Boston press ...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Decade

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It's been a very long time since my last post....for my limited number of readers, I apologise. Although we're technically not in th...
Sunday, April 04, 2010

Turn the page

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Now that we're well into year '10 instead of '09, we can look forward to yet another opportunity of a fresh start. As I wrote ab...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Balance

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A lways captivating Gregg Easterbrook, aka TMQ on ESPN.com writes in his article about the manic coach firings in College Football: a unive...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Hot Stove...

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... l ukewarm Niners (picture of Alex Smith from sfgate.com) and a pretty ice cold Liverpool. That's probably an accurate snapshot of t...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

What now?

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W ith only half an eye on the CS, I struggle to justify staying up to 5am to watch the Angels, Yankees, Dodgers or Phillies. I've franti...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Halos Redux....again. Or not.

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Here we go, here we go, here we go....again.... Like an old vinyl record with a scratch in it, returning the track to the same starting poin...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Priorities

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S o, you are a valued employee, perhaps one of the key members of staff. You're coming up to the biggest deadline you've had for man...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

15 mins that shook the world

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T he most important half time talk ever....

2005 redux

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A fter watching Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, it was time to revisit the other top sporting moment of my life...